The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee accused the CIA of criminal activity in improperly searching a computer network set up for lawmakers investigating allegations that the agency used torture in terror investigations during the Bush administration.

Shot politician Gabrielle Giffords was “even more alert” and progressing well, her chief doctor said, a day after beginning intensive rehabilitation in Houston, Texas.

The husband of shot politician Gabrielle Giffords said today he believed for about 20 minutes that his wife was dead after seeing a TV news report that said wrongly that his wife had been fatally wounded.

A Romanian opposition party today challenged the results of presidential elections, saying they were fraudulent.

Embattled California governor Gray Davis challenged Arnold Schwarzenegger in vain to a debate “right here, right now”, accusing the Terminator star of distorting his record.